Bill Lee2019-08-27T15:37:21+00:00August 27, 2019|
By Bill Lee In August 1999, the InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) was formed by a group of industry leaders with a plan to develop the InfiniBand architecture, providing a RDMA fabric with high-performance, scalability and programmability to interconnect data centers across the world. In 2015, following the success of InfiniBand, the IBTA [...]
Bill Lee2019-07-01T18:35:07+00:00July 1, 2019|
By Bill Lee The 53rd edition of the TOP500 List, a ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, was released this month. The IBTA is excited to share that InfiniBand accelerates the top three supercomputers in the world and six of the top 10 systems. Additionally, HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand, the fastest end to end interconnect [...]
Rupert Dance2020-05-05T21:39:40+00:00June 12, 2019|
By Rupert Dance In April 2018, the IBTA’s Plugfest 33 saw the first instance of HDR 200Gb/s copper cables being tested for compliance, paving the way for the rollout of HDR in 2019. As a result of Plugfest 33’s breakthrough compliance testing, the 34th IBTA Plugfest, held at the University of New [...]
Bill Lee2019-06-11T18:00:12+00:00May 21, 2019|
By Bill Lee The IBTA is excited to announce the publication of Enabling the Modern Data Center – RDMA for the Enterprise, a booklet that expands on the application and value of RDMA in data centers serving the enterprise, the cloud, and the World Wide Web. This booklet is a companion [...]
2020-01-31T19:03:21+00:00April 25, 2019|
By Scot Schultz High Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud has the potential to improve a wide variety of industries, but this trend is not impressive simply based on its potential—there are already real world cloud applications leveraging HPC today that have led to incredible accomplishments. HPC in the cloud has enabled [...]
Nereus2018-12-19T16:30:49+00:00December 19, 2018|
The 52nd edition of the TOP500 List, a ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, was released this past November. Once again, the List highlights that InfiniBand is the top choice for the most powerful and advanced supercomputers in the world, including the reigning #1 system - Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Summit. [...]
Nereus2018-11-09T18:32:49+00:00November 9, 2018|
By Bill Lee As Supercomputing Conference 2018 (SC18), held this year in Dallas, TX, quickly approaches, the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry gears up to discuss topics ranging from HPC in the Cloud to the Convergence of HPC and Big Data. Each of the topics highlighted during the show will provide insight [...]
Nereus2018-09-28T18:44:37+00:00September 28, 2018|
By Bill Magro and Eitan Zahavi The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has recently revised the InfiniBand Roadmap to reflect additions to the spec and now charts the expected availability of InfiniBand NDR solutions that are capable of up to 1.2Tb/s data rate. The refreshed roadmap details 1x, 2x, 4x, and 12x port [...]
Nereus2018-08-07T20:22:39+00:00August 7, 2018|
The latest results of the TOP500 List, which ranks the world’s fastest supercomputers, have been released for the first half of 2018. The IBTA is excited to highlight that Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit system, the new most powerful supercomputer in the world, is accelerated by InfiniBand EDR. InfiniBand powers the top [...]
Nereus2018-08-07T20:21:02+00:00August 2, 2018|
The IBTA through its RoCE Initiative is proud to announce the second edition of the RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Deployment Guide, a technical resource to supplement the IBTA’s RoCE educational program. The second edition of the RoCE Deployment Guide reflects both a growing industry interest in RoCE technology’s network acceleration capabilities [...]
